O'Brien, Charlotte Rachel orcid.org/0000-0002-3853-1144 (2016) “Hand-to-mouth” citizenship:decision time for the UK Supreme Court on the substance of Zambrano rights, EU citizenship and equal treatment. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. pp. 228-245. ISSN 1469-9621
Abstract
UK benefit rules strip Zambrano residence rights, for UK national children and their third country national primary carers, of equal treatment entitlement. These rules are challenged in a case pending before the UK Supreme Court. This piece argues that Zambrano creates an EU-citizenship based right to reside which necessarily entails equal treatment. UK national children in Zambrano families fall within the scope of EU law, so are not prevented by the wholly internal rule from claiming equal treatment with EU national children in Teixeira families. And they are protected by equal treatment as a general principle of EU law, which requires equal treatment with other UK national children. The justifications for automatic unequal treatment put forward before, and accepted with alacrity by, the Court of Appeal, are poorly reasoned and ill-matched with the rules in question – most notably because Zambrano families may have strong connections with the UK. A CJEU reference is likely; a Zambrano right is the right to reside in the Union - it is the right to have EU rights. The substance of EU citizenship is at stake.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | equal treatment,EU citizenship,general principles of EU law,proportionality,real links,scope of EU law,substance of nationality,Zambrano right to reside |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Law School |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) ES/J01611X/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2016 16:48 |
Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 01:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1183556 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09649069.2016.1183556 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99807 |
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